Hello, as is now traditional on a Friday.

We're bringing you our look back at some of the big political events of the week,

which we recorded on Thursday night and broadcast on BBC One.

But here it is with no pictures, just going straight into your ears rather than your eyes.

BBC Sounds, Music, Radio, Podcasts.

Chris, we're joining the studio tonight by Tim Shipman from the Sunday Times. Hello, Tim. Good evening.

And author of Out, which is the final one. What do you call a trilogy when it's for?

It's supposed to be a tetralogy. I call it a quartet. I call it a quartet of books about the last decade or so in British politics. I've just got to the bit where Boris Johnson and Rishi Sunak are starting to properly fall out.

But that means all the kind of the Brexit stuff is done.

So seeing Michel Barnier come to life again in the pages, that's all happened.

But then, of course, Michel Barnier is the actual news this week.

I know. He's amazing.

He's back. He's back.

I mean, you know, good old Barnier.

I remember when he ran for president and he started sort of saying, well, Brussels is a terrible bureaucracy and we need to control immigration.

And I remember David Frost, the negotiators saying, I had no idea he was listening so carefully to all my arguments.

You know, they had all these rows during the negotiations.

But when Barnier became a sort of national politician himself, it was amazing how he went for all the same tropes.

Although I always thought the thing about Barnier was he was a pragmatist in the situation

that he found himself in.

So the pragmatic thing to do is the EU chief negotiator

was to defend all those positions and encourage all the member states to sign up to them,

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